MX Messaging Resources

June 2007 - Posts

• FlexBox Mail Software, Zimbra, Wins eWEEK Excellence Award for Enterprise Collaboration

  Zimbra recently won the eWEEK Excellence Award for Enterprise Collaboration for it's next generation messaging and collaboration suite. MxToolBox is excited about this award because Zimbra is the collaboration component that helps to power our FlexBox Read More... Posted Monday, June 25, 2007 1:07 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: FlexBox, Managed Email, Hosted Email

• FLOWGO Goes Away

  The FLOWGO RBL has gone offline. As a result all IP Addresses are now "listed." Anyone who is using FLOWGO as an anti-spam measure on their server should remove it. If you receive a bounce message saying your mail was rejected due to listing on FLOWGO, Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:16 AM by Joel | 1 Comments Filed under: Server Monitoring, RBLs, FLOWGO

• Spamhaus DDOS SYN Flood Attack

  Spamhaus was the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) SYN Flood attack during through the middle of the week. The site is back up and running now on a new IP. Read More... Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 10:57 AM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spamhaus

• Spam Spikes Pose New Challenge for In-House Email Security Management

  Spammers and hackers are turning to a new technique to defeat anti-spam appliances and, in some cases, knock email servers offline. Spam Spikes is an attack method where a domain's email servers are flooded with thousands and thousands of messages for Read More... Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:04 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spam, Spam Tactics

• IRS Scam Spam Campaign

  In a variation on a classic social engineering spam scampaign (scam campaign), Spammers/Hackers (we call them "spackers" around here) are circulating two scams with emails purporting to be from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In one scam, the email Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:20 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spam

• Spammers Use of Artificial Intellegence to Increase

  A study by Forrester Research predicts that Spammers' use of Artificial Intellegence (AI) to automatically create endless variations of spam campaigns and delivery avenues to evade detection and stay ahead of many spam filters will increase in the coming Read More... Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 2:36 PM by Joel | 0 Comments Filed under: Spam